Read Luke 19:1-10
You’re walking home one night after dinner in a fabulous restaurant and well priced too (for the Presbyterian in us!!). You see this graffiti tagged on a building wall: “What are you looking for?” I wonder how you interpret that question. Is it just graffiti? Is it a deep and insightful probe into the nature of humanity? Is it a comedic comment on the confusing layout of our city? How do you interpret that question?
If we take the second option as at least partially true, let me ask you that very question, ‘What are you looking for?” Most people are looking for something. Children are looking for fun. Teenagers are looking for acceptance. Young adults are looking for love. Older people are looking for validation and meaning. What are you looking for?
If we were to ask Jesus that question He’d answer, ‘Those who are lost?’ Huh? Jesus came to seek out, to search for, those who are lost. He came to deliberately find those people that have lost their way when it comes to knowing God. How I wish that each and every believer would answer as Jesus did when we are asked that question. I am looking for the lost. I am seeking those who don’t know their way back to God.
How are you searching for the lost? How is your cell group searching for the lost? How is your church seeking the lost? What can you be doing to find them? How can you identify them? How can you get to them before it’s too late?
This is God’s mission in a nutshell. It captures the theme of the entire Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22. God has come to seek and to save the lost. He has come to rescue those who need rescuing. He has come for us.
Spend time praying that God would show you who the lost are in your community and how you can “find” them and bring salvation to them.
Prayer:
à Prayer for the Darling Downs Presbytery and for the men who willingly give up their time to serve in this role.
à Uphold Keith Dowding, Moderator of this Presbytery.
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